Summary: Students will take out their question and answer sheets that were homework from the night before. They will swap question sheets with their partner and use textbooks to answer the questions. They will then correct themselves by looking at the answer sheet. If they don't understand an answer to a question, they will have their partner explain the answer to them. Explaining concepts to their partner will help students engage in meaningful learning of the material. I will walk around the room and check off their homework as either check plus, check, or check minus, or zero depending on the effort they put into the assignment. We will then finish going over the notes from Chapter 11. This should take about 25 minutes. The rest of the 35 minutes of class will consist of a Punnett Square activity where students will predcit the results of a monohybrid cross. Using pennies to represent certain traits, students will experimentally prove that their Punnett Square results are accurate.
Homework: Answer the analysis questions from the Punnett Square activity.
Objectives:
Students will be able to cite and explain the key terms and concepts of Chapter 11 of their textbook and realize how they relate to each other.
Students will be able to successfully complete a monohybrid cross in a Punnett Square and experimentally prove that the genotypic and phenotypic ratios obtained in the Punnett Square are accurate.
Homework: Answer the analysis questions from the Punnett Square activity.
Objectives:
Students will be able to cite and explain the key terms and concepts of Chapter 11 of their textbook and realize how they relate to each other.
Students will be able to successfully complete a monohybrid cross in a Punnett Square and experimentally prove that the genotypic and phenotypic ratios obtained in the Punnett Square are accurate.